Brain Science Podcast #25: Rolf Pfeifer discusses Embodied Intelligence

How the Body Shapes the Way We Think, by Rolf Pfeifer and Josh Bongard
Brain Science Podcast episode 25 is an interview of author Rolf Pfeifer, Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Zurich. The focus of our conversation was the importance of embodiment. Brains (and intelligence) can not be understood separate from [...]

Test of a new Facebook Application

I am just testing this application that is supposed to allow me to post from Facebook.
If you are on Facebook be sure to join the Brain Science Podcast Group and PodSci the group for science podcaster.

All in the Mind is one of my favorite podcasts and I am happy to report that host, Natasha Mitchell, has recently launched a companion blog, which generally talks a little bit more about each episode, as well as providing some content in between shows. Best of all there is now a link there [...]

Neuropod reviews the 2007 meeting of the Society for Neuroscience

Nature recently relaunched its neuroscience podcast under the new name: Neuropod with host Keri Smith. The show is supposed to come out once a month, and while there is some overlap in content with the main Nature Podcast, the focus on neuroscience allows them to expand the coverage of related topics.
I got an email from [...]

Brain Science Podcast #24: Reading and the Brain

Listen to this episode now.
Show Notes
Dr. Wolf’s book Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain, is divided into three main topics: the history of how writing and reading developed over the last few thousand years, the developmental stages involved in learning how to read, and what happens when the [...]

Brain Science Podcast #24 will be delayed

This week’s episode of the Brain Science Podcast will be delayed until next week.
Meanwhile, if you don’t already listen to Books and Ideas I hope you will check out the new episode that I posted this week. It is an conversation with Dr. Pamela Gay of the Astronomy Cast.
Listen to Dr. Gay’s interview now
 
 

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